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Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs
lowrydr310 writes "Western Union is blocking money transfers to people with Arab names. They have delayed or blocked thousands of cash deliveries on suspicion of terrorist connections simply because senders or recipients have names like Mohammed or Ahmed. 'In one example, an Indian driver here said Western Union prevented him from sending $120 to a friend at home last month because the recipient's name was Mohammed.' Western union claims they are merely following U.S. Treasury Department guidelines that scrutinize cash flows for terrorist links. I agree that Western Union shouldn't allow anyone supporting terrorism to use their service, however I'm fairly certain there are millions of people named Mohammed or Ahmed who aren't terrorists. I wonder if any other financial companies such as banks are doing the same thing."
That goes beyond stupidity into the realms of absolute idiocy, assuming it's an accurate report.
Correction: most terrorist acts within the past 20 years were commited by muslim extremists.
You can't handle the truth.
within 20 years and around the world. I wasn't talking about specifically the US.
You can't handle the truth.
Then we wouldn't have this problem. Seriously, there is a reason for what is happening here. Arabs performed terrorist attacks on US soil, and they have made it their life's mission to bring down the USA, and kill all the jews. Until this group of people can clean up their own house, how do they expect us to take any of them seriously? Stop performing jihad and attempting genocide, and maybe we will start treating you like human beings.
Who is saying anything about the US soil? In the world within the past 20 years.
You can't handle the truth.
You may define it as racist, but that doesn't make it so.
There are white people who are not in any meaningful way "rednecks". I'd venture to say there are non-white people who could be described as "rednecks".
So, there you have it. Not racist.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
sure it was - the oklahoma bombing happened in the US. Just another guy in this thread gave examples of US terrorist attacks only, I want to make it clear: in the world.
See for yourself.
You can't handle the truth.
I like it how you insist that I should trust you. Sure they are less than 1%, the rest are terrorist attacks that take place within Israel and Iraq, you were just too lazy to follow the links, but the links are there, for each year in their own categories.
You can't handle the truth.
Gee, a U.S. company is following U.S. law and flagging financial transactions that may be related to terrorism. Most of said transactions are delayed a short time, some are blocked entirely. Yeah, lots to get upset with there.
Profiling you say? Profiles are like stereotypes, they exist because the is truth to them.
Racism you say? You do not know if the list only covers Muslims. Is it still racist if the list contains the known aliases for members of the IRA, or Red Dawn, or the other terrorist organizations?
Sounds to me like the Western Union employee didn't understand what actually happens, that or he was deliberately misleading people.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
If the Parent is offtopic, then the GP is offtopic, then this entire thread is off-topic, just as well as this entire article. Let's post this in the "News for Nerds", but let's not discuss the news.
You can't handle the truth.
Wow, that is so not true. So very, very, very, very not true.
Catholic politicians in the USA who support our invasion of Iraq have not been denounced and condemned. In contrast to the Catholic politicians who support a woman's right to have some say over her body.
The violent actions of (so-called) Christians/Catholics against doctors, nurses, and patients at health care facilities in some crazed crusade against abortion have NEVER been denounced and condemned by Christianity as a whole. BTW, "you really shouldn't take the law into your own hands and go around shooting doctors, but those doctors should have known the risks when they agreed to treat women" doesn't count as "denounced and condemned."
Don't try to paint Christianity as some religion of peace tainted by a few bad apples. You have about 1500 years of history working against you.
The rednecks I have always known aren't big on PC things like raping our political and legal systems to accomodate potential terrorists. They'd rather just shoot the fuckers that our military catchs abroad than subject everyone, including Muslims, to police state type tactics in the United States. Bush is not a redneck. You can't be a redneck and go to Yale for a MBA. Many of the people that Bush represents, probably most of them are country club dads and soccer moms, not your average yeehaw redneck.
And btw, dumbass, there is nothing "ignorant" about the Bush Administration. They know EXACTLY what they are doing. The word your PC mind is groping for is "evil," not "ignorant." Idiots and ignorami don't get elected to the Presidency. Evil people, well, that's a compeletely different matter, ain't it?
I guess I must be a redneck because I agree with them. No trials for people caught carrying explosives to a terrorist attack. Line them up and shoot them dead like they're an enemy soldier. No stasi-style surveillance state. A nice 0.50 round to the head is just fine with me.
there are two reasons to oppose gay marriage: bigotry and political pandering to bigots
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Dude, marriage means one thing, and changing it to mean a new thing is not something I approve. Let 'em get civil unions and change the laws to include benefits and visitation right to civil unions, instead of changing marriage, change the technicalities that make marriage a necessity.
Fuck, don't pigeonhole people in your lil' prejudiced categories just because they disagree with you on one issue.
P.S. Couldn't care less about the sanctity of marriage or any of that, it's been one thing since it has existed, and changing it is not a move. Ancient greeks weren't opposed to homosexuality, but they had the same meaning for marriage that we have now.
You can't take the sky from me...
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Yeah...and? What does the 28% bracket have to do with it?
For filing single, 25% tops out at 71,950. For filing jointly, 25% tops out at 119,950, not 2x71,950. Two people making $70k each who get married and filing joint will pay about $600 extra above what they paid as two single tax payers.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-abort0 6.html/
Priest who axed abortion clinic gets Elgin post
July 6, 2006
BY TOM POLANSEK Courier News
A priest who used an ax to hack up a Rockford medical clinic where abortions are performed has been assigned to a top position at an Elgin church.
The Rev. John P. Earl began serving July 1 as parochial administrator at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 272 Division St.
In an interview Wednesday, Earl declined to discuss his arrest and subsequent guilty plea for the attack on the Northern Illinois Women's Clinic.
Instead, he urged a reporter to begin an investigation into whether DNA from the "blood and guts'' found at abortion clinics matches the DNA of people who enter and leave the clinic. Until he sees such a report, Earl said he had "no interest in talking to . . . any newspaper.''
Scared off by owner's shotgun
Earl's entanglement with the law began Sept. 30, 2000, when he was arrested after he admitted to crashing his car into a garage at the clinic and using an ax to break doors, windows and surveillance cameras on the building, according to police reports. He was charged with two counts of criminal damage to property.
Earl never actually made it inside the medical office, which performs abortions. He stopped his attack after the building's owner fired two warning shots from a shotgun, the reports stated.
The clinic was closed at the time of the incident, and no one was injured.
Earl pleaded guilty to the charges Feb. 14, 2001, and was sentenced to 30 months of probation and ordered to pay restitution and fines.